Snowboarding or Skiing ?
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That's how I learnt to board too.
Try both and make your own mind up
OR learn both and then switch each time you go - simple!
Yeah good plan, i think immediate term ill learn to ski, its something i can learn with my little boy too which will be nice.
Snowboarding for definite!
You can just do a lot more fun things trickwise. Skiers can do the park but on the flats not a lot you can do apart from ride the piste. I love being able to tear up a piste whilst dropping in 180 ollies, butters, manuals and nose rolls.
Also don't believe the pretense that snowboarding is slow, on my 164 board especially when it has been waxed I easily out run 90% piste users.
You can just do a lot more fun things trickwise. Skiers can do the park but on the flats not a lot you can do apart from ride the piste. I love being able to tear up a piste whilst dropping in 180 ollies, butters, manuals and nose rolls.
Also don't believe the pretense that snowboarding is slow, on my 164 board especially when it has been waxed I easily out run 90% piste users.
Rubbish! You obviously haven't seen many good skiers if you think we can't do stuff on the flat! With the right equipment you can ollie, do standing 180s/360s etc.
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I've been doing both for a number of years and I think skiing is better.
Skiing. You'll still look cool doing it when you are 60
Better make sure i trade the Mrs in for a younger model then by then
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Done a good bit of both but I prefer snowboarding, I get more adrenaline through it.
This makes you sound like a complete butter too. I can hit any kicker, lip, ridge you can, can ride backwards as well as I can ride forwards (and thus do the tricks required to change face on a whim), and we can certainly do more in a park, due to being able to move all four limbs independantly.
Snowboarding IS slow, you wouldn't keep up with me, that's for sure.
Skiing, it's harder to learn, but much better when you reach the peak of what you can do on each, unless you're into the whole snow-park style scene.
I've done both, and I much prefer skiing, although ironically my knees are so buggered now I could only board
I've done both, and I much prefer skiing, although ironically my knees are so buggered now I could only board
I can ski but have recently been learning snowboarding.
If you can pick snowboarding up pretty quickly then that's great, although it's tougher on the flat and on your bum to start with. Although I get more of an adrenaline rush from snowboarding - but maybe because it's new to me and it's pretty exciting when you know you're going to crash/flip/die and have to brace yourself for impact
Snowboarding might be better tricks wise (?), it looks cooler imo, but it depends if you want to do that or if you're just starting out - it might not be such a good idea.
So, yeah... Didn't really help you there They're both good fun, although atm I'm having fun learning to snowboard - a new challenge is the attraction for me I think!
If you can pick snowboarding up pretty quickly then that's great, although it's tougher on the flat and on your bum to start with. Although I get more of an adrenaline rush from snowboarding - but maybe because it's new to me and it's pretty exciting when you know you're going to crash/flip/die and have to brace yourself for impact
Snowboarding might be better tricks wise (?), it looks cooler imo, but it depends if you want to do that or if you're just starting out - it might not be such a good idea.
So, yeah... Didn't really help you there
They're both good fun, although atm I'm having fun learning to snowboard - a new challenge is the attraction for me I think!I've done both, and I much prefer skiing, although ironically my knees are so buggered now I could only board
You have no knees ?
You have no knees ?
No, I damaged all the tendons and ligaments in one of my knees in a skiing accident, and skiing is too painful. Boarding is fine.
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I would hardly call it slow, I believe the record is around 126mph which maybe slower than the fastest skier but is still damn fast! You can get plenty of speed if you want to.
126mph sounds a little scary to me, it screams broken legs and mangled arms
It's about the same speed you would be going if you fell from a plane, so slightly more than broken
It's about the same speed you would be going if you fell from a plane, so slightly more than broken
lol